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Wednesday, 7 April 2010

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Our friend lives in Cluj-Napoca, which is the capital of Transylvania. On March 29th we explored the city, including climbing a hill on the outskirts and looking out over the rooftops. It's such a beautiful city! In many ways it reminds me of Vienna - it has the Habsburg influence too (The Doctor could tell you much more about the history of it but I picked up a few snippets...) There's so much more I want to tell you about what we saw but I'll prepare a photo post for that separately and keep this to my photo of the day :-)

We ate out for lunch that day, and I had fresh orange juice with my meal. I was thrilled when it truly was freshly squeezed juice!

...is what I speak. It describes what I actually say (nonsense, mostly) and how I say it (ie my accent, which is a mixture of all sorts - a bit of North of England, a bit of Irish, a bit of South West England, a lot of just me!) The word comes from my name, Mel, and the fact that I'm one-quarter Welsh. But there's not actually any Welsh in my accent. Go figure...